Common Purpose Us Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 822151633
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2020, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 7407800708
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $429,264
- Expenses
- $214,072
- Assets
- $215,714
- Liabilities
- $94,839
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Matthew Epstein (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Antonina McIntyre (US Programs director): $70,741 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Common Purpose is a not-for-profit organization that develops leaders who can cross boundaries. This enables them to solve complex problems both in organizations and in cities. We deliver face-to-face and online leadership programmes for multiple generations of leaders: from students in universities to senior leaders in organizations and society.
What it reported doing in 2024
Common Purpose staff worked with it's partner in Chicago to deliver its main program in 2024. The Chicago 200 program invests in young people across the city so they can become a connected generation of leaders with clear vision for what their legacy to their city might be.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 86% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 30
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 22.3%; rating input score 22
- Program expense ratio: 43.6%; rating input score 44
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.12 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 50.1%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.01; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.44; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 33%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 22.3% of revenue deployed · 43.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $93K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $71K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 22/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 44/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 27/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.